|
Deadline
- Contemporary psychological novel with a "mystery" as a narrative line. - Nominee for prestigious national "Edgar" Award; fine reviews. - 1st Pub: St. Martin's Press. |
Praise for Deadline:
• Washington Post: "Deadline is a tense, well-turned tale, filled with authentic police and newspaper people. Heidish's taut, punchy style moves the story at lightning speed."
• Kirkus Reviews: "The high-tension plot is enhanced by sharply etched pictures, by many vivid characters, and by a crisp, clean, first-person style. Heidish imbues her haunting story and her gutsy heroine with a rare sense of tenderness and poignancy. An impressive mystery by a gifted writer."
- St. Martin’s Press: “This wire-tight novel probes relentlessly, driving deep into psychological darkness and violent death. As the riveting story reaches its stunning conclusion, we see a complex woman forced to meet the ultimate deadline.”
- Terri J. Rice (WA, USA) Amazon.com Book Review: Umbrella Murderer, Nan Skillen is foremost a journalist who takes her job on the crime beat very seriously. Second of all, she is a sleuth.
Very loosely based on the murder of a homeless woman, Ella Starks, in Washington D.C., this story goes on to tell of a serial umbrella murderer. The murderer could be anyone of number of suspects. Nan Skillen is determined to get the story and find the murderer.
Her boyfriend and editor, Tom, is interested in getting the story but more interested in keeping Nan safe.
The author, Marcy Heidish, takes us into the world of the homeless shelters' sub-culture.
Gruesome at times and very dark, it is a page turner that has to be solved. I could not put it down until the murderer was found.
- Tencha Avila, Amazon.com Book Review: So brilliantly written, it scared the hell out of me!!! Heidish is a genius in the plotting of this murder mystery intertwined with a lovely romance. Hitchcock would have loved her and made this into a scary movie with hot sex scenes. I hope some still will.
• Washington Post: "Deadline is a tense, well-turned tale, filled with authentic police and newspaper people. Heidish's taut, punchy style moves the story at lightning speed."
• Kirkus Reviews: "The high-tension plot is enhanced by sharply etched pictures, by many vivid characters, and by a crisp, clean, first-person style. Heidish imbues her haunting story and her gutsy heroine with a rare sense of tenderness and poignancy. An impressive mystery by a gifted writer."
- St. Martin’s Press: “This wire-tight novel probes relentlessly, driving deep into psychological darkness and violent death. As the riveting story reaches its stunning conclusion, we see a complex woman forced to meet the ultimate deadline.”
- Terri J. Rice (WA, USA) Amazon.com Book Review: Umbrella Murderer, Nan Skillen is foremost a journalist who takes her job on the crime beat very seriously. Second of all, she is a sleuth.
Very loosely based on the murder of a homeless woman, Ella Starks, in Washington D.C., this story goes on to tell of a serial umbrella murderer. The murderer could be anyone of number of suspects. Nan Skillen is determined to get the story and find the murderer.
Her boyfriend and editor, Tom, is interested in getting the story but more interested in keeping Nan safe.
The author, Marcy Heidish, takes us into the world of the homeless shelters' sub-culture.
Gruesome at times and very dark, it is a page turner that has to be solved. I could not put it down until the murderer was found.
- Tencha Avila, Amazon.com Book Review: So brilliantly written, it scared the hell out of me!!! Heidish is a genius in the plotting of this murder mystery intertwined with a lovely romance. Hitchcock would have loved her and made this into a scary movie with hot sex scenes. I hope some still will.